This article is from page 12 of the 2011-06-21 edition of The Clare People. OCR mistakes are to be expected so download the original SWF or the rendered page 12 JPG
THREE Clare schools had their ingenuity rewarded when they collected silver awards in a national engineering competition.
Shragh National School, Kilrush, Scoil na Mainistreach in Quin and Parteen National school were given silver cert awards to mark the fact that they made it to the final and were in the top 20 schools in the country in the Engineers Ireland Xperience Engineering Competition 2011. The finals took place on Thursday last in The Helix in Dublin.
Parteen National School were entered in the final with their project entitled ‘Inventions in Sewage – the Toilet’.
Scoil na Mainistreach, reached the final in the junior category for their project entitled ‘Engineering a cleaner world with windmills’.
Shragh NS, in the same category for their project entitled ‘Wind Farms’.
Congratulating the teams, John Power, Director General of Engineers Ireland, said, “The Xperience Engineering project has a long history with schools around Ireland.
“This is the third year of the competition and each year I’m delighted with the level of interest and enthusiasm as well as the high calibre of projects that were entered.”
Last December all registered primary schools were sent out a pack from Engineers Ireland highlighting the theme for this year’s competition which was ‘Engineering a Cleaner World’. Over a four month period participants worked on their projects.
The competition is divided into two categories, the first targeting third/ fourth class and the second focusing on fifth/sixth class.
“As Ireland moves out of recession and progresses as a nation in areas including engineering, science and technology it’s important that we continue to nurture our students and provide them with the right environment to develop their talents.
“With this in mind I’d like to thank all the teachers who helped their students to develop their ideas to enter the competition.”